I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
BJORKThe reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
More Bjork Quotes
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I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!
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I’m not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don’t look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student… I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
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I’m not as religious as some people about “the album.” To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that’s 45 minutes.
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The reason I do interviews is because I’m protecting my songs.
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All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
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Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
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I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
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I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it’s good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.
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